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[ABOLITION]. BRANAGAN, Thomas (1774–1843). A Preliminary Essay, on the Oppression of the Exiled Sons of Africa consisting of Animadversions on the Impolicy and Barbarity of the Deleterious Commerce and Subsequent Slavery of the Human Species… Philadelphia: for the author by John W. Scott, 1804.
8vo. Dedication leaf, publisher’s advertisement at end. (Some browning to title–page, lacks frontispiece). Original sheep, red leather lettering–piece gilt (extremes a bit rubbed, joints tender). Provenance: ownership inscription dated 1805.
FIRST EDITION written by an ex–slaver turner abolitionist who wrote several works on the immorality of slavery. Shaw & Shoemaker, Early American Imprints 5901; Sabin 7379.